Maggie Philbin OBE opened and hosted the event, which was attended by 300 teenage students. Thirty-five companies and organisations supported the day. Split into three zones (Innovation, Insight and Challenge), the students had the opportunity to get hands-on experience with the latest technologies and talk to people who use them in the real world.
We gave the children hands-on experience with a robotic total station, a laser scanner, survey software and virtual reality building models. We explained to them the purpose behind surveying and how it fits into design and construction.
The children were particularly impressed when their image appeared in the laser scan point cloud and also with how they could move around a building using the virtual reality app on the iPad.
Hopefully we have inspired some of them to explore a career in surveying and 3D modeling.